No, I think he’s reading the regular newspaper which already came, and that the second one which crashed through the door was delivered to his house by mistake.
You might be right that I missed the joke, but then again maybe I didn’t. The fact that the guy pushing the barrel was dressed like a maintenance worker (while Buni wasn’t wearing any clothes at all) is the main reason why I thought he was there to clean out the well and collect all the cash that had been thrown in over the years.
Looks like they are both male, so at least one of them would need to be left behind anyway.